List of international goals scored by Samuel Eto'o

Samuel Eto'o Fils has scored a total of 56 goals in 118 caps for Cameroon

Samuel Eto'o is a retired Cameroonian professional footballer who played as a striker for the Cameroon national football team from 1997 to 2014. He is currently Cameroon's all-time goalscorer with 56 goals and 118 appearances, which also puts him as his nation's 2nd-most capped player behind Rigobert Song (137). He represented his country at four FIFA World Cups (1998, 2002, 2010, 2014), six Africa Cup of Nations (2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010), and the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup.

Eto'o helped Les Lions Indomptables win both the 2000 ^[1] and 2002 Africa Cup of Nations finals ^[2] and also reached the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup Final, which they lost to France.

He earned his first cap for Cameroon on 9 March 1997 during a 5–0 loss in a friendly against Costa Rica, but did not score his first goal until 2000 in a 3–0 win against Ivory Coast in a 2000 Africa Cup of Nations group stage match. ^[3] His only hat-trick while playing for Cameroon would come in a 3–1 win against Angola in a 2006 Africa Cup of Nations group stage match. ^[4] He eventually decided to retire from international duty in 2014 after joining Everton. ^[5]

Goals

Scores and results list Cameroon's goal tally first. ^[6]

No.	Cap	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	13	28 January 2000	Accra Sports Stadium, Accra, Ghana	Ivory Coast	2–0	3–0	2000 African Cup of Nations
2	14	6 February 2000		Algeria	1–0	2–1
3	15	10 February 2000		Tunisia	2–0	3–0
4	16	13 February 2000	National Stadium, Lagos, Nigeria	Nigeria	1–0	2–2 ( a.e.t. ) (4–3 p)	2000 Africa Cup of Nations final
5	17	19 April 2000	Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé, Cameroon	Somalia	3–0	3–0	2002 FIFA World Cup qualification
6	20	28 January 2001	Stade de Kégué, Lomé, Togo	Togo	1–0	2–0
7	26	1 July 2001	Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé, Cameroon		1–0	2–0
8	28	7 January 2002	Stade du 4-Août, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso	Burkina Faso	1–0	3–1	Friendly
9	31	29 January 2002	Stade Babemba Traoré, Sikasso, Mali	Togo	2–0	3–0	2002 African Cup of Nations
10	35	27 March 2002	Charmilles Stadium, Geneva, Switzerland	Argentina	1–1	2–2	Friendly
11	37	26 May 2002	Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium, Kobe, Japan	England	1–0	2–2
12	39	6 June 2002	Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama, Japan	Saudi Arabia	1–0	1–0	2002 FIFA World Cup
13	42	27 March 2003	7 November Stadium, Radès, Tunisia	Madagascar	2–0	2–0	2003 Tunis Four Nations Tournament
14	44	19 June 2003	Stade de France, Saint-Denis, France	Brazil	1–0	1–0	2003 FIFA Confederations Cup
15	51	8 February 2004	Stade Mustapha Ben Jannet, Monastir, Tunisia	Nigeria	1–2	1–2	2004 African Cup of Nations
16	52	6 June 2004	Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé, Cameroon	Benin	1–1	2–1	2006 FIFA World Cup qualification
17	54	4 July 2004		Ivory Coast	1–0	2–0
18	55	5 September 2004	Osman Ahmed Osman Stadium, Cairo, Egypt	Egypt	2–3	2–3
19	59	4 June 2005	Stade de l'Amitié, Cotonou, Benin	Benin	4–0	4–1
20	63	21 January 2006	Cairo Military Academy Stadium, Cairo, Egypt	Angola	1–0	3–1	2006 Africa Cup of Nations
21					2–1
22					3–1
23	64	25 January 2006		Togo	1–0	2–0
24	65	29 January 2006		DR Congo	2–0	2–0
25	69	3 June 2007	Antoinette Tubman Stadium, Monrovia, Liberia	Liberia	2–0	2–1	2008 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
26	71	22 January 2008	Baba Yara Stadium, Kumasi, Ghana	Egypt	1–3	2–4	2008 Africa Cup of Nations
27					2–4
28	72	26 January 2008		Zambia	4–0	5–1
29	73	30 January 2008	Tamale Stadium, Tamale, Ghana	Sudan	1–0	3–0
30					3–0
31	77	31 May 2008	Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé, Cameroon	Cape Verde	2–0	2–0	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
32	78	8 June 2008	Stade George V, Curepipe, Mauritius	Mauritius	2–0	3–0
33	80	21 June 2008	Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé, Cameroon	Tanzania	1–0	2–1
34					2–1
35	81	11 October 2008		Mauritius	1–0	5–0
36					2–0
37	82	11 February 2009	Stade Robert Bobin, Bondoufle, France	Guinea	2–1	3–1	Friendly
38					3–1
39	86	5 September 2009	Stade Omar Bongo, Libreville, Gabon	Gabon	2–0	2–0	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
40	87	9 September 2009	Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé, Cameroon		2–0	2–1
41	89	14 November 2009	Fez Stadium, Fez, Morocco	Morocco	2–0	2–0
42	91	17 January 2010	Estádio Nacional da Tundavala, Lubango, Angola	Zambia	2–1	3–2	2010 Africa Cup of Nations
43	92	21 January 2010		Tunisia	1–1	2–2
44	97	19 June 2010	Loftus Versfeld Stadium, Pretoria, South Africa	Denmark	1–0	1–2	2010 FIFA World Cup
45	98	24 June 2010	Cape Town Stadium, Cape Town, South Africa	Netherlands	1–1	1–2
46	99	11 August 2010	Stadion Poznań, Poznań, Poland	Poland	1–0	3–0	Friendly
47					2–0
48	100	4 September 2010	Anjalay Stadium, Belle Vue Harel, Mauritius	Mauritius	1–0	3–1	2012 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
49					2–1
50	106	3 September 2011	Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé, Cameroon	Mauritius	3–0	6–0
51	107	7 October 2011	Stade des Martyrs, Kinshasa, DR Congo	DR Congo	1–1	3–2
52	108	11 November 2011	Stade de Marrakech, Marrakesh, Morocco	Sudan	3–1	3–1	2011 LG Cup
53	109	13 November 2011		Morocco	1–0	1–1 ( a.e.t. ) (4–2 p)
54	112	23 March 2013	Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, Yaoundé, Cameroon	Togo	1–0	2–1	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification
55					2–1
56	117	1 June 2014	Borussia-Park, Mönchengladbach, Germany	Germany	1–0	2–2	Friendly

Statistics

Goals by year Year Goals 2000 5 2001 2 2002 5 2003 2 2004 4 2005 1 2006 5 2007 1 2008 11 2009 5 2010 8 2011 4 2013 2 2014 1 Total 56

Goals by competition Competition Goals Friendlies 8 FIFA World Cup qualification 18 Africa Cup of Nations tournaments 18 Africa Cup of Nations qualification 5 FIFA World Cup finals 3 FIFA Confederations Cup 1 Other tournaments 3 Total 56

References

1. "Cameroon 2-2 (4-3 pens) Nigeria". The Shot.
2. "Cameroon 0-0 (3-2 pens) Senegal". worldfootball.net. 10 February 2002.
3. "Cameroon 3-0 Ivory Coast". Soccerway. 28 February 2000.
4. "Cameroon v Angola (2006 CAF Africa Cup of Nations)". Goal.com. 21 January 2006.
5. "Samuel Eto'o: Cameroon striker retires from international football". BBC Sport. 27 August 2014.
6. Samuel Eto'o Fils – Goals in International Matches Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation